Learning Objective

Geometry

· Investigate, describe, and reason about the results of subdividing, combining and transforming shapes.

Similar Figures
Develop sense of shape and size of plane
figure by making similar figures.

Get Ready
The figures with the same shape and different size are called
similar figures. Match the similar figures.

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Rep-Tile
When some living things in water grow up to a certain size, they divide
themselves into 4 parts with the same size and shape, but smaller than
the original.

This applies in mathematics as well. The division of a copies of the

same shape is called a rep-tile.

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ቃ૦ፐ౥ Similar figures

Make similar, larger, figures by using 4 of the same pieces of MAGFORMERS.

1 Make a similar figure using

4 equilateral triangles.

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2 Make a similar figure using

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4 squares. 4 rhombuses.

4 Make a similar figure using 5 Make a similar figure using

4 rectangles. 4 trapezoids.

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 Geometry / Plane a Figures

Make similar, larger, figures to the ones shown by using

various other MAGFORMERS shapes.

Make this shape Make this shape

Make this shape Make this shape

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Making similar figures

Make a similar figure by using the fewest number of MAGFORMERS pieces.

Pieces you will need.

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1. Each person rolls a die and selects a number from 1-6.

2. Make a similar figure to the selected figure below by using
MAGFORMERS pieces.
3. The person who makes a similar figure using the fewest number of
pieces wins.

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I got 2.
I have to make
a similar figure
to a square.

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